xvi, 721 pages : 27 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Neutrophil activation and function in health and disease / Kent J. Johnson, James Varani and James E. Smolen -- Neutrophil respiratory burst mechanism / Linda C. McPhail [and others] -- Regulation of lipoxygenase enzymes in leukocytes / Jack Y. Vanderhoek -- Activation of leukotriene production in granulocytes: effects on cell activation / Anthony W. Ford-Hutchinson -- G-proteins and the role of second messengers in the regulation of the human neutrophil / Pramod M. Lad [and others] -- Eosinophil activation and function in health and disease / Randa I. Abu-Ghazaleh, Hirohito Kita and Gerald J. Gleich -- Basophils and mast cells: piecemeal degranulation in situ and ex vivo: a possible mechanism for cytokine-induced function in disease / Ann M. Dvorak -- Signal mechanisms in the activation of basophils and mast cells / Donald MacGlashan, Jr. -- Effects of cyclic nucleotides on granulocytes / Ronald G. Coffey -- Regulatory effects of cytokines on myelopoiesis / F. Hermann and R. Mertelsmann -- Cytokine-stimulated emigration of granulocytes in vivo / Dennis E. Van Epps

(cont) Physiological studies with human leukocyte inhibitory factor / Larry Borish and Ross Rocklin -- Biology of NAP-1/IL-8, a neutrophil-activating cytokine / Jens-M. Schroder and Enno Christophers -- Activation of neutrophils by interleukins-1 and -2 and tumor necrosis factors / Antonio Ferrante -- Modulation of neutrophil functions by [gamma]-interferon / Giorgio Berton and Marco A. Cassatella -- Activation of neutrophils by granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor / John F. DiPersio and Camille N. Abboud -- Biochemical effects of human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) on the human neutrophil / Richard Sullivan -- Mechanisms of host tissue damage by cytokine-activated neutrophils / Antonio Ferrante, Inge C. Kowanko and Edna J. Bates -- Tumor necrosis factor stimulation of neutrophils for antitumor activity / Hungyi Shau and Robert L. Roberts -- Interferon activation of eosinophils / C. De Simone [and others] -- Regulation of human eosinophil production and function by interleukin-5 / Angel F. Lopez

(cont) Cytokine stimulation of human basophil histamine release / Mary Haak-Frendscho and Allen P. Kaplan -- Hemopoietic growth factors regulate basophil function and viability / Koichi Hirai, Yutaka Morita and Terumasa Miyamoto -- Effects of hematopoietic growth factors on nonhematopoietic cells / Shoukat Dedhar and Connie Eaves -- Effects of cytokines on the expression of adhesion molecules in allergic diseases / Eduardo Calderon -- Granulocyte colony-stimulating factors as therapeutic agents / Robert E. Donahue and Steven C. Clark -- G-CSF and M-CSF: preclinical and clinical results / F. Hermann, A. Lindemann and R. Mertelsmann -- Clinical trials of granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor for the treatment of aplastic anemia / Saroj Vadhan-Raj -- Clinical trials of granulocyte colony-stimulating factors for treatment of bone marrow depression associated with cancer chemotherapy / Graham J. Lieschke and George Morstyn

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